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Originally Posted by aida2003

I read on some other forum that you must be very vigilant to check out the medical bills.
Mommies whose pregnancies+deliveries were covered by insurance co. still requested itemized bills from the hospitals. Then they told what ridiculous amounts hospitals billed their insurances.

This is true for ALL hospital bills, not just those related to delivering a baby. You should always get an itemized bill and review it item by item. If there is anything you don't understand or aren't sure if you actually got, call and ask. Make them review the records and justify the charges.

When my wife had her gallbladder out 2 years ago, I got over $1,000 knocked off the bill after I reviewed it.

To be fair, it isn't all fraudulent charges. If you've ever spent time in a hospital or worked in an OR, you know how things run. They might prep a room for everything they anticipate possibly having to do. Each piece of equipment that gets opened gets billed to the patient even though it might not actually get used.

In my wife's case, before she went in for the operation, they set up her room with a compression pump for her legs (to prevent blood clots). But in the OR, they hooked her up with a pump so when she got back to her room, she didn't need the one that was set up there. Of course, it had already been billed to her account. I got them to remove the duplicate charge. Stuff like that happens a lot.